Kaleidescape Returns To CEDIA With `Co-Star’ Linking Kit For Legacy Devices
UPDATE! Kaleidescape is coming back to the CEDIA 2017 custom electronics show in a big way this week to unveil a new solution that bridges its older Premiere disc-based HD media players with its latest 4K-Strato players that download up to Ultra HD Blu-ray…
UHDA Adds Additional UHD Premium Certification Categories
The UHD Alliance (UHDA), the inter-industry group advancing and promoting Ultra HD home entertainment, announced at the IFA consumer technology show in Berlin this week that it has established new Ultra HD Premium specifications for Streaming Media Players, Set-top boxes and Desktop PCs and is…
UHDA Names New Chairman, First Fulltime President
Mike Fidler, new UHDA president UPDATE! We have included an interview with new UHDA President Mike Fidler after the jump in the story. Read on for his mission objectives. The Ultra HD Alliance (UHDA), the inter-industry group working on 4K UHD standards recommendations and the…
AT&T To Bring Multi-Platform Cloud DVR Feature To Pay-TV Services
AT&T said it will launch a “cloud DVR” feature to enable subscribers to its DirecTV Now live over-the-top streaming service, DirecTV satellite TV service, and U-verse telco-tv service to store recorded programs on remote servers instead of hard drives in a set-top box. AT&T…
Microsoft Unveils Xbox One X High-Powered 4K Gaming Console
Microsoft used the video gaming industry’s E3 Show in Los Angeles this week to unveil its long-awaited Xbox One X gaming console, which the company is calling the most powerful of its kind. The console will hit store shelves worldwide on November 7th and…
Blackfire RED Wi-Fi Protocol To Improve Wireless Home Integration
Home entertainment network startup, Blackfire Research, introduced Monday its Blackfire RED real-time entertainment distribution framework, billed as the industry’s only wireless entertainment-centric infrastructure software framework designed to overcome the limitations of using in-home Wi-Fi media applications. Blackfire designed Blackfire RED wireless applications and products…
Apple Support Of HEVC To Bring 4K UHD To More Screens
Apple disclosed at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 this week that it has officially selected the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) compression standard as its codec of choice for next-generation video streaming. Apple executives said that HEVC decoding and encoding would find…
Nvidia Shield TV Update Adds Live TV Via Plex, USB Tuner Add-on
Users of Nvidia’s Shield TV high-powered media streamer will soon be getting some new features delivered via the Shield Experience Upgrade 5.2, including an easier way to watch and share live broadcast TV, the company said Thursday. The updates will roll out initially through…
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